Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-10
FARM NOTES.

Beef may be smoked or corned at this
season with but little difficulty, and the
farmer who raises a steer for his own use
annually will be provided with Il better
quality Of meat than if he depend upon the
pork barrel.
Fears have been expressed that the wheat
sown in this portion of the State last fall
would fail TO produce a crop, but parties
who have examined it say that it is grow
ing nicely, and that with favorable weather
there will be q large crop.-GGrdclt city
(hdq.) Sentinel
Save all the wood ashes carefully and
after the orchards are plowed scatter the
ashes over the plowed ground literally and
harrow the ground well This Incorporates
the ashes with the soil, and assists in in
ducing chemical changes and the formation
of plant food. There is a large portion of
lime in wood ashes as well as potash.
Some one wants to know how much to
feed 100 fowls. In winter give them in the
morning six quarts of warm feed, ut noon
the same amount of wheat oats, and in
the evening all the corn they will run after.
This is about the correct amount for layS
ing hens. If they are being fattened feed
them three times a day all they will eat up
clean.
An observing Iowa farmer risks the repu-
tation of his prophetic sonl on the fact that
the coming season will be an unusually good
one 1OE the RAISING LOl SiIldll grail nO
bases his prophesy on the drouth of dhe
past year, arguing that the ground will be
in better shape for receiving seed next
spring by reason of its dryness and conse-
quent early warmth.
Too long feeding is common mistake in
fattening fowls for market. 1t takes off
the profits when a shorter time will an
swer If kept in a dark place and stuffed
with all they can eat they will fatten in
a1xrad ax- or. fxtyn M no
continued much longer they will begin to
grow poor again. Those to be kept over
should not be subjected to this fattening, or
rather stuffing, process.
The outlook for wheat is much better than
it has been for several years. The crop
last year was short and the surplus is Yeryrs
much reduced. The price Is slowly coming
up, and better figures than have prevailed
for two years are hoped for. While Europe
is not actually at war, each nation over
there is practically in a state OF siege, and
demands for breadstuffs will soon be be-
yond the supply. Should war ensue. Amer
lean wheat will go up to a good fgEre.-
H1depe,tde1ice (-hO) Sentinel.
We have conversed with quite number
of Northern Shawnee farmers within the
past few weeks. nearly all of whom stated
it as their belief that the wheat in that To-
cality is pretty effectually used up and that
the prospects of even a mcager crop arc in
no manner encouraging. '-Our farmers
will have TO make an extra exertion the
coming spring planting. corn, which is
almost certain to produce largely, and
when put into hogs will be paying invest
ment. ''-Tol>eta (Han.) Mail.
The directors of the Northern Pacific
railroad at their late meeting in New
York. voted to invest 100000 in seed wheat
for the benefit of the farmers Of Dakota
west of the Missouri river and eighty
miles east of that river. Hailstorms and
dronth destroyed the fall wheat crop in
that section, and without such assistance
IS the Northern Pacific has decided TO give
them, the farmers would find themselves
in a very tight place. In return for the seed
wheat the farmers will return bushel for
bushel out Of the crop grown from it.